Fable II will be released without online co-op

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Fable II is coming soon, and everybody’s excited about it, right? What if you knew that the game that you will be receiving on release day will be slightly…broken? Would you hold off on buying it or are you going to wake up early on the morning of October 21? This is a question that you might want to start considering, as the news as of this weekend is that the title will be gimped for online co-op play.

It’s a big feature that many customers will be sad to hear about. After the success of the one-person story-driven Fable, everybody was excited to hear that they’d be able to share that experience with online friends (and enemies) via XBOX Live. According to Lionshead Studios, though, that won’t be the case. They didn’t say why the co-op isn’t working, but they said that it will be up and running soon after the game hits shelves. They are saying that it’ll be a week, tops.

It will be interesting to watch how gamers take this news. On one hand, you’re still getting one of the most anticipated games of the year and you can hope that when the co-op functionality is released, it will be amazing. On the other hand, Peter Molyneux and company have been acting quite funny about the release of this game, and you have to wonder if everything will be all right when the title is in gamers’ hands. We’ll all know for sure just how good it is in a few weeks.